A lifestyle blog
I hadn’t until recently when I received an email asking me if I fancied trying it out. It came at a time when my headaches were at an all time high and my healthy eating was at an all time low. The idea is a simple one, three days of nutritious soups and broth to help cleanse and detox your digestive system, leaving you feeling so much better at
I wrote about this phrase four years ago: Lessons to be learned in the wake of the Baby P case. “Lessons will be learned“. And yet here we are, with a different situation four years later but still hearing the same phrase being trotted out. I am sick of it. How many more people have to die before these bloody lessons are learned? Once again I wake up
World Gin Day 2017 is here! What a week. What a sodding week. And it is not getting any better is it? I have a bit of a “no politics” rule at home because we are all often on opposite sides of debates and I just can’t stand the arguing, though it isnt proper arguing it is just healthy debate. I tend to walk away when it
Dear BBC Like many people on Saturday night I was just thinking about taking the dog for a walk before going to bed when a news alert popped up on my phone that there was an “incident” developing at London Bridge. We all know that “incident” is not a word used lightly these days and that this was clearly a developing story. Knowing that friends were in the
With June 1st comes the realisation that the summer is finally here. And with it come the invites to summer weddings and balls, and the looming large of sporting events in the calendar. All of which need a go to killer outfit. If you have to buy an outfit for every event it can get pricey so a few years ago I made the decision to buy
I was actually planning on talking about gin made in Manchester last week, after we spent the weekend there for BlogOn and Mr B’s birthday but I didn’t get around to finishing the post and then, well, world events overtook us all and writing about Manchester gin somehow didn’t feel appropriate. The original post was based on the fact I now buy gin as a souvenir, much
Okay so it not so much an actual window I am featuring on Window Wednesday this week but the metaphorical window that let’s you view the £5.4 million roof restoration project of The Vyne’s roof. We have been to the Vyne before since it is one of our closest National Trust houses and has not only a gorgeous house to venture into, but also stunning grounds and gardens. Mr B and
I started drafting “6 things that annoy me about hotel bedrooms” in my head after another ten minutes trying to find a plug socket in a hotel bedroom about a year ago and I was reminded to make the post live when the same thing happened recently. A gorgeous hotel, on the Thames, £190 a night for the room with Molton Brown toiletries, bottles of water, notices saying you can call
The Guardian has said that The Handmaid’s Tale, which aired for the first time last night on Channel 4, is “The best thing you’ll watch all year”. I beg to differ. Not because I have seem something better, but because I won’t be watching the Handmaid’s Tale. Why? Well for a number of reasons. It is clearly an extraordinary book. People discuss it enthusiastically at length, picking over the
Social media and rolling news channels have a lot to answer for. For the most part I am a huge fan of both, loving the fact I can feel connected to people and events all over the world from the small phone in my hand. That I can Skype my parents to show them how my granny has settled into her new care home after they moved her
Did you know that either of those things existed? Well come on, keep up. They do indeed and the second one just happens to have just been awarded to a very good friend of mine, Nickie from I Am Typecast, so I grabbed the opportunity to have a chat with her about the title. And thought I would share with you some of my current favourite notebooks. Like Nickie
I bloody hate that expression. I think it’s awful but I can’t think of anything as succinct as that to make a decent title for this post. “If you aren’t married to the person we are inviting then you will not be invited to our wedding” doesn’t trip off the tongue as easily as the above. Which is why it is clearly the headline the tabloids are going with for
